James V. Hart

James V Jim Hart born 1960 in Fort Worth Texas is an American screenwriter and authorHe wrote the 2005 childrens novel Capt Hook The Adventures of a Notorious Youth a prequel depicting J M Barries villain Captain Hook the nemesis of Peter Pan when Hook was a youngster Earlier Hart wrote the screenplay to the Steven Spielberg feature film Hook which functioned as a sequel to Barries original story Hart also wrote the screenplay adaptation for Crisis in the Hot Zone but the movie never materialized He recently did the first draft screenplay of Atlas Shrugged which is now being fully developed by director Randall Wallace Recently it has been announced that screenwriter James V Hart wrote an adaptation of Sirens of Titan which Vonnegut approved of before he died Description above from the Wikipedia article  James Hart  licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia